Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism used to avoid cognitive dissonance, or the mental discomfort and anxiety caused by a person's having conflicting values, cognitions, emotions, beliefs, etc. within themselves.
Compartmentalization allows these conflicting ideas to co-exist by inhibiting direct or explicit acknowledgement and interaction between separate compartmentalized self states.
Yes that is what compartmentalizing is! I know I do it under certain circumstances. Those things that I truly am not comfortable with. Those things that don't fit into those damn ticky tacky yellow boxes. OR do they? Perhaps I really am in one of those ticky tacky boxes looking out.
Compartmentalizing helped me. Some could call it denial. Perhaps. Some could call it stupidity. Perhaps. Survival. Yes a better word. It fit in my life at that time. The unfortunate thing is that when you no longer truly need it...it continues and becomes habit and habit becomes something that becomes how you are, how you live and you don't realize that it is now part of your core.
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